t.v. dot com. police crackdown on the car a protest is pressing the president to abandon his power grabbing decree or leave those demonstrations start to look like a rerun of the revolution. dozens die in the latest twin car bomb attacks in the syrian capital damascus amid fears a wave of western support for the rebels will cause further civilian deaths. palestinians say they'll go to the international criminal court if it's confirmed their leader yasser arafat was poisoned overstays is not great at the u.n. will help their cause. and terrorism evolved from scrambles to contain homegrown islamic radicals adept at blending into the european way of life.

and life for money said here in moscow this is egypt's top courts have stopped working in a show of solidarity with those protesting against what's been described as a dictator like power grab by the president over one hundred thousand people gathered in caro are calling on one hundred morsi to leave after he gave himself authority beyond reach of the courts tom barton is in the egyptian capital. here in the streets of central cairo the sights the sounds and the smells of protest and of civil disorder are very loud and very clear tougher a square is just over there and a large crowd of protesters are fooling stones at the police who are giving just as much back picking up stones themselves and firing back along with them as vans

firing gas canisters into the crowds the stench of to gas is thick in the air the police a protest as everyone alike is as there are eyes and noses who are trying for militias take gas there's more top coat tails flying through the air as well only pavements have been ripped up as have some of the branches of the trees it's a real street but this has been going on now through the night into today these people absolutely determined the crowds of protesters the mohamad mercy was changing the rules to make that declaration that he did want to give sell sweeping was last tuesday they weren't completely rescinded declaration luly. tahrir square. we will have to leave that mohamed morsi got to making democracy in this country but after within five five months of this or since you have more since starting to run from this country has started to use despoja i'm collecting all of

the poems this country to be on his side a lot of these people don't want the r.c.a.'s that president will see now that cost a lot of. just the free everything. from the whole thing you can have all supposed to have the homage morsi for his part has said that he does not want to become a dictator he wants compromise he's trying to work with the judges and he wants to make sure egypt gets a proper constitution however people here simple. they are buying the judges themselves have gone on strike they've been protests in cities around egypt and these have been the scenes with protests some protestors having reports of many more having been injured we've seen both police and protesters being carried back by their calm rates having been wounded by flying stones and choking on on to gas

the situation here immensely tense that this is really not just a constitutional crisis that it was. political crisis the last most you can do something. serious about giving up these not trying to take the kind of power. mubarak had then these protests seem likely to go on and on. egypt's supreme constitutional court has accused morsi of targeting it specifically khaled me editor of the. newspaper says the president is putting himself above the law and compared his behavior to fascism. this. divided egypt and even bought a. civil war unfortunately this president is doing the very same things for which.

before they are against dictatorship this is what we are looking at now the egyptian people are saying no to that and you. are looking at this crowd you cannot tell who is muslim or christian who is liberal leftist this is the real people are saying no to religious fascism making the president above the law the president and the muslim brotherhood behind him have already lost their credibility they have promised so many things in the past never kept their promises that's why most of these people in the streets they were talking about over a million up to now because they are not happy with this. well you two can share your opinion of what's going on in egypt and what it will eventually lead to by casting a vote on our web site r.t. dot com here's how the votes are lining up so far as of those who voted so far believe that morsi will cancel his new laws in order to stay in power twenty eight

percent say this disturbance will see the military and allies of x. president mubarak return to power. almost as many think further instability will lead to intervention by western powers in libya and then ten percent say morsi will resign and elections will make it easier for me right now at all to talk. the united nations is preparing to vote on whether palestine should receive member observer status the organization if approved it would mean international recognition of the palestinian state and give it additional powers like taking issues to the international criminal court and participating in un general assembly debates while the u.s. strongly opposes the bid france has already said it will vote in favor the u.k. is also leaning towards backing the resolution it also has overwhelming support from developing nations spokesperson for the palestine national authority says it's looking likely the motion will be passed. palestine is very optimistic about

winning the necessary votes the number of countries that have already co-sponsored the draft resolution surpasses sixty five not mistaken and so the palestinian leadership is pretty certain of success well there isn't a better time to take the step there now after israel's recent most recent assault on the gaza strip all palestinian factions have reached an agreement that this could this should never happen again while palestinians are divided there is you know a narrative among the palestinian political system in its entirety. islamic jihad all palestinian factions support this step and wanted to succeed. they realise that they agree amongst one another that the priority domestic priority now is for rebuilding and for reinvigorating the democratic institutions of palestine consolidating this reconciliation and moving forward as the state of palestine

towards steps on the ground that would reverse the israeli occupation and entrench independence the recognition may boost palestinian chances for success the international criminal court and they say they'll turn to the hague if it's proven that lately the yasser arafat was killed his grave was open on tuesday and sold pulls from his remains collected three teams of investigators will test them for radioactive substances results are set to be revealed in a few months from now inquiry was launched eight years after an event which was officially caused by a stroke following a mysterious illness israel denied palestinian accusations it assassinated saying it had nothing to gain from his demise catch up with more analysis and the timeline of the story at r.t. dot com. in syria up to fifty four people have been killed and dozens injured by twin car bombings in a damascus suburb mostly populated by president assad supporters and worker from

the syrian social club a pro-government group pushing for reforms thinks these blasts are being used to shift balance in the civil war. they have all sorts of objectives first of all obviously to give the illusion or to to give the sense of the feeling that the government is not in control in the hope that people would start losing support we know that the theory has been from the very beginning that the people are afraid of the government once they feel that you have a real strong grip is slipping they would immediately shift sides obviously the streets yet to happen and people are still in support for the regime of people the support of the government to be prevented from falling so yes this is civil war tactic in a sense. later in the program here at r.t. will be taking a look at some of the fallout from this syrian crisis and how it's affecting one of the region's most powerful groups also coming up politically correct tweeting i've

ever heard of what you might say on twitter might be inappropriate not to worry because british policy will tell you and maybe even jail you for it i report in cyber censorship coming up after the break this is our team in moscow. this is day starts at five am even early in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains and plains of t.v. thirty five years old it was a life he jumped off having studied accounting but he just unfamiliar dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter found stage setting up his ute traditional to fenian round tent made of disc ins his p.c. back amongst his family and his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus

forty degrees celsius it's just that i'm with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so all most of us is simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their heart they hurt the cattle dogs. with people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd in my tractor if they're promising largest subsidies for produce and livestock and organizing cooperatives

for the sale of day products to ensure the herd it gets a higher fair price i sympathize with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life stay in their publics capital because ill but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life and looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm but more time on his hands he says matter of fact he can start to look for a new wife. party life here in moscow syria's two biggest kurdish groups have agreed to merge into one in order to heal divisions and present a united front if successful the union could potentially emerge as a third faction in syria in control of oil richlands and the border with iraq where for more on their aspirations let's talk to him often he's leading m.p.

from the kurdish coalition for baghdad well this isn't the first time the two factions have tried to unite could it work this time. well i hope the torch because they need this unity definitely. you know. there was more and i think they should unite. negotiations with the cd and position all thought about all of the future of this country and that i could in my get in this country because if they don't unite then they will be in a weak situation and terror key will influence part of these people are those who will influence because ted he wants to divide these people they don't want these people to be united but are they why. are they already divided when we see what's

happening in syria we've got syrian kurds who are fighting against assad and at the same time we've got syrian kurds who are actually friendly with the sad so already there is a major division there surely the. coalition i mean. when one tier key on the other side they want to affect negatively the situational couldn't see that they could keep their unity they would avoid that division they would avoid the influence of this country or that country now the iraq war that led to the creation of an autonomous kurdish region in iraq the syrian war and seeing more autonomy giving being given to syrian kurds do you think the kurds will actually ultimately benefit from all this instability it will go in their favor. well if they are united and they gore cording to our plan which of them i think i think if they could lobby and negotiate

on all this for a keep their unity i think they would benefit from the present situation because now the good discussion is well known all over the war that it's much better than before and even the enemies of the could they could do the things they have then again them now in this situation so i think that their unity and the way they are war the way they'd all be out war all of the factors that influence their future you say the kurdish situation is well known all over the world does that mean that you could expect some western support over this i don't know of but surely you know there could in turkey in our people know about them even the turkish government is now talking about because this question could've c.d.o. it had no name anyway nor i had nothing now they are governing part of the quality of their are already known because of the talk about acim they have some of their

about the constitution how to listen about their rights in iran or sort of there are some movements or all you see movements you see the could huge issue which is moving and. getting more of what i'm going to do with it and where this issue moving towards branch of us where will this eventually lead to really when it really lead to the creation of an independent kurdistan is that really a possibility. well that depends on the international situation in the international situation and the big powers they're required now i this nation. that i used to so. i think about would be a big help but till now the international community has not recalled that and the big powers are still north with that they are more with the countries within which to live by this country do want to call it mad that i could muster depends on the regional and international situation. but often in leading in people the kurdish

coalition from baghdad thank you very much for your time. a far cry from gun toting radicals in the middle east the terror now facing france is much more sinister blending right into society in the cause of it a french use short of cash and opportunities flocking to radical islam the result is the next year reports tracking homegrown terrorism is not proving easy. the recent national white police raid on radical islamist groups in france made headlines with a rasta made in all regions the youngest suspected terrorist was only nineteen but it was not the age which shocked so many leaders from and we discovered a network of seven additional people living primarily in paris strasburg and can all these people were born in france and are french nationals they are linked to the radical islamist movement police say the group was plotting at least twenty five terrorist attacks against jewish organizations and schools and age of twelve

detainees were french natives who had converted to radical islam and experts say this worrying trend is gathering pace as the financial crisis group's europe and many youth are finding themselves out of work if you go and you say you are excluded and the best way to change your life is to become immersed in it would not work with the majority of course but did need the majority they need to have permanent fruits of people converting economic crisis is deepening it probably creates more exclusion and so more people to quote in the mist in communities or to convert to. islam france is no stranger to combating radical islamist groups since the nineteen fifties it has been countering all jiri and iranian and lebanese terrorists and more recently al qaeda but this is a totally different matter just like most of europe over the years france has grown

very successful in reinforcing its borders and preventing most of the threat coming from abroad but with more and more homegrown radical organizations appearing on its soil tracking down possible terrorists with passports would be very hard if not completely impossible security services believe for now the situation is under control as the conversion to radical islam is still relatively rare but no one can guaranteed stays this way and the number of violent incidents by french. islams is already on the increase our secret service are really well experiments to fight these kinds of terrorism and they are watching very carefully. the delivery of the most gears and all the people who are traveling. this doesn't mean that we will see any at security specialists claim many arab immigrants living in french suburbs have already had a taste of warfare taking part in different middle eastern conflict over the past decade as to what could happen if their experience and views are mixed with the

growing anger of needed french youth perhaps time will tell. r.t. reporting from paris in france. go online for more on the stories we have here is one of special reports exclusive to our website also there a fresh crisis in the making it's a bleak outlook for the american middle class with a new study showing the gap between rich and poor has suddenly grown to its widest in decades. and russia's mega follow bollock area gets a one point seven billion dollar welcome all of london stock exchange to find the prevailing do and gloom economics. a silly joke or vent your anger on twitter and facebook could none that you're a jail sentence courtesy of the prison authorities there's a growing number of prosecutions resulting from offensive provocative or even misunderstood post. reports now from london. do you think before you tweet what if you're in a bad mood or you just have

a controversial opinion would you post that as your facebook status you might think that what you type is insignificant considering the vast expanse of the internet think again for something that you type on here you could end up in. paul chambers two years ago the accountant worried that he might not be able to fly due to bad weather tweeted robin hood airport is closed you've got to weaken a bit to get your together otherwise i'm blowing the airport sky high arrested questioned for a towel as convicted and find the tweet lost him his job and cost him thousands in lawyers fees chambers case branded the twisted trial true such widespread condemnation that it was eventually overturned by the high court nineteen year old linford house posted a photograph of a burning paper puppy on his facebook page a symbol of remembrance for the soldiers that die in war arrested questioned and

held for twenty four hours before being released on bail and we're very worried about people being taken to court for essentially having a fit of bad temper and saying things in an intemperate way i think that's wrong because people start to look over their shoulders and wonder whether they're actually allowed to express the opinions that they're actually hold also worried about the kind of people who are getting these convictions often they are people with political views and it is a very bad thing when people start to be told that they can say things because their political views are finding others the law used to convict most social media offenses was drafted before twitter and facebook even conceived it was meant to protect individuals from being harassed or threatened over the telephone free speach. advocates question how that relates to posting your opinion online the

trouble is that when things are post on things like twitter and facebook is that they're there for all to see and for people to share and so the deafening becomes an element of mob rule and then pressure is put on the police forces to act on that rather than abiding to the legal system that we currently have teenager matthew woods found out all about more brule off to making offensive tweets about a missing five year old girl an angry crowd gathered outside his house and he was arrested and sentenced to twelve weeks in jail but i don't think anyone ever expected political correctness to become a criminal law. if. it's somebody to me i want to be rude but i don't want the right to feel the police get to come around in order to think that the whole work about free and grow up society has to use this tattle tale on each other nor isn't quite sure how to respond to those wanting to test freedom of speech in the u.k. really goes the u.k.

is director of public prosecutions has promised to draft new guidelines on how to respond to online offenses but campaigners say that it's not just guidelines but reform that urgently needed if the u.k. is to uphold its freedom of speech online. r t cyberspace. other world news in brief now for you here in r.t. iran has unveiled two upgraded domestic light submarines and overhauled hovercraft it's the latest part of terrans efforts to improve its defense capabilities upgrade is being made because it fears possible future attacks from the likes of israel or the us against its nuclear program it's now planning a major naval drill. deadly floods in panama for more than six thousand people out of their homes as hundreds of houses were buried underwater some roads have been washed away by massive landslides downpours of eased off since tuesday rivers overflowed their banks damaging bridges and buildings. in brussels

what a major overhaul of spain's banking system but the country's four nationalized banks talk to slash the loans on their balance sheets by more than a half some of the banks already claiming that will cost thousands of jobs the measure is a condition of them receiving rescue payments of almost forty eight billion euros spain's eurozone partners are stumping up more than one hundred billion euros to keep the banks afloat following the property market collapse four years ago. i'll be about to with more news for you know nothing five minutes from now to me to washington studios that's where we're heading now abby martin's breaking the set is coming up in just a few minutes. do we speak your language any form of the will or not of the. news programs and

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here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call a donut night concludes the longest and while this campaign in our history colors of the left well that made that claim before our eyes that some additional fresh face time with twists and turns that have been the hallmarks of this campaign like a watch what we're about to do because you've never seen anything like this i'm told. what's up guys i'm abby martin and this is a break in the set to be happy about you guys on friday things given just around the corner and of course the breaking news that general petraeus just resigned oh if only he would resign for his crime of overseeing a murderous drone program and not an extramarital affair which brings me to this

interesting development there's a new drone propaganda web site in town called increasing human potential. interesting choice of words there the site advocates the use of drones and how fitting that it's just in time for obama's second term just look new websites holy dedicated to taking any humane ed up the practice of drone warfare and the mission statement says the goal is to quote highlight the valuable and endless benefits of all the unmanned. and robotics what's behind this fancy rhetoric is that the people in yemen pakistan somalia afghanistan and any other country that the government has a shadow war and right now are being terrorized on a daily basis let's call a spade a spade this is just a pathetic attempt to rebrand the drone king's policies just hours after obama got reelected he oversaw the drone bombing in yemen but you know when you have news agencies like the washington post which censors civilian death counts from drone bombings the.